Experts
David Kennedy
Professor of History, Stanford University; Author
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Whom would you like to interview, and what would you ask?
Kennedy recalls a hillside in Sardinia. Read More
March 7, 2008 | In Inspiration & Wisdom
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Participating in Our Democracy
A million people voted for Andrew Jackson in 1828. Read More
March 7, 2008 | In History
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Updating international institutions for the 21st century. Read More
March 7, 2008 | In World
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Re: How will this age be remembered?
The end of traditional warfare. Read More
March 7, 2008 | In Future
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Re: What should be the big issues of the 2008 presidential election?
Iraq, Iraq and Iraq. Read More
March 7, 2008
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Re: What is the world's biggest challenge?
Kennedy, on the global income gap. Read More
March 7, 2008 | In World
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Re: What is the connection between fear and war?
War, Kennedy says, should always be the last resort. Read More
March 7, 2008 | In Inspiration & Wisdom
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America used to take the lead in creating a latticework of institutions. Read More
March 7, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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Re: What would the Founding Fathers think?
Kennedy thinks they'd be reasonably proud. Read More
March 7, 2008 | In History
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Re: What forces have shaped America most?
The peculiar relationship between political and civil societies. Read More
March 7, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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To trace a common lineage, Kennedy says. Read More
March 7, 2008 | In History
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David Kennedy on His Catholic Worldview
Life on this earth, David Kennedy says, is a veil of tears. Read More
March 7, 2008 | In Belief
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Blum, Woodward, Potter. Read More
March 7, 2008 | In History
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Re: What is the biggest problem historians face?
It's easy to assume the past is irrelevant. Read More
March 7, 2008 | In History
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Changing the equation in the student's favor. Read More
March 7, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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Re: How have you changed the study of American history?
Kennedy talks about injecting new issues into the debate. Read More
March 7, 2008 | In History
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Re: How was America's experience of WW II different?
We fought a very different war than every other belligerent country. Read More
March 7, 2008 | In History
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Understanding a country of 300 million. Read More
March 7, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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The Americans and the History That Made Them
A departure from the triumphalist account. Read More
March 7, 2008 | In History
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Re: Why is American history important?
A people without a collective memory is a people without a collective identity. Read More
March 7, 2008 | In History
David M. Kennedy is the Donald J. McLachian Professor of History at Stanford University. His scholarship is notable for its integration of economic analysis with social history and political history. Kennedy has written over ten books; his first, Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger (1970), won the John Gilmary Shea Prize in 1970 and the Bancroft Prize in 1971. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1980) and won the Pulitzer in 2000 for his 1999 book Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. Other awards include the Francis Parkman Prize, the Ambassador's Prize and the California Gold Medal for Literature, all of which he received in the year 2000. Kennedy was educated at Stanford and Yale. The author of many articles, he has also penned a textbook, The American Pageant: A History of the Republic, now in its thirteenth edition. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
